So three of these guys, Tenet, Goss and Hayden, were involved either in approving, authorizing, having knowledge or standing around with their thumb in their ass while we tortured and killed the guilty and the innocent indiscriminately. Woolsey has turned (?) into a nut job. Woolsey and the rest of them feed off the intelligence community and Government as so many fly's feed off shit. Best to keep their masters happy so they can feed from the trough. I'm so glad they want no consequences for their actions.

Does no one else find it fascinating that the signature of former President George H W Bush—who served for slightly less than a year as Director of Central Intelligence under President Gerald Ford and, was recalled from his post as Ambassador to China to implement changes at the scandal-rocked agency and deal with abuses and failures which occurred during the tenure of former director William Colby—is missing from this document?

So, of course, are the signatures of the deceased William Colby and William Casey, and that of Robert Gates, presently serving as Secretary of Defense, as well as that of Admiral Stansfield Turner, the lone 'Democrat' amongst the former directors of the last twenty-five years.

As a former Army intelligence officer with some familiarity with the Agency and with other elements of the intelligence community, I concur that the letter is self-serving and a rather poor attempt to deflect individual responsibilities among the signatories for their failure to curb abuses and adequately manage the Agency under their respective tenures.

How come Regis Philbin didn't sign that letter?

Oh, never mind. That was the other millionaire show.

On the Regis show, you actually had to answer questions to get the money.

Folks with ethics will have no problem excelling in an organization where those who torture and promote torture are prosecuted. What WILL happen also is that those human beings who thrive when degrading, torturing, and threatening innocent and guilty people alike will most likely have a difficult time remaining in their jobs.

Anyone believing we need sadists in these jobs is just plain wrong. This is only necessary when dictators and military societies desire complete tyranny... not when a democracy, freedom and equality are wanted...

If I'm right, 5 of the 7 served in strictly republican Administrations, the other two served under Clinton, the neo con Woolsey and (Slam Dunk under Clinton/Bush)Tenet.

It's too late. Obama made his bed, when he decided that the way the Bush administration handled, well, just about everything, was an acceptable, legal way to do it. And it will bite him in the ass in a way health care never could.
Obama is covering the backs of everyone who will put a knife into his. What's worse, Obama has validated the Bush administration aproach to starting, funding and continuing a war.
Like the military and CIA will accomplish things for Obama that they wouldn't do for Bush, who they adored, and gave them everything they wanted?

Obama will end up taking the entire blame for everything Bush and his cronies did. He's a chump.

What a surprise! All the former law breaking spy agency leaders are opposed to looking behind the curtain to see what kind of war crimes were committed! The most preposterous thing about all this is that they are sqwauking over an investigation so timid as to not even exist. Yet, they are so off the wall defensive and scared that the truth about the Central Thug Agency might become public once again that they are having a hissy fit. Well, fuck em! How does it make any sense whatsoever for our security agencies to be beyond the law? What, after all, is the purpose of passing laws that outlaw things like torture and prisoner abuse if we don't apply them when violations occur? Investigate and let the chips fall where they may. It is remarkable what a bunch of whiners the spooks are isn't it?

I don't think a President has tried to prevent a DoJ investigation since Nixon and that was a Constitutional crisis that almost involved the military. These guys signed this letter because they're scared Durham will have to 'follow the facts' of the case.
Fuck Tenet, he can stuff his Medal of Freedom right up his ass, fuck Hayden, and ESPECIALLY fuck Goss who's lucky he's not in jail (Duke Cunningham et al).

Me and my man Eick are tied at the hip, When I say jump he says," How High, Boss ".
But I am grateful for his freinds like Marc Rich and Carlos Vignali, who cares about the ex-cia guys.

It was out here a few years ago that the CIA (operatives etc.) had gotten its lawyers to draw up and get signed documents that would basically cover (their) asses if and when they carried out the orders from above (Cheney etal.)

Apparently it didn't work? Maybe not only does the CIA engage in illegal and basically nefarious deeds, they don't even have enough smarts to get their asses sufficiently covered. And our security is in their hands?

These old boys network CIA directors think their agency should be absolutely 100% above the law. What was supposed to be a purely intelligence gathering agency of the gov. has become the play ground of the privileged. Their crimes range from selling and laundering drugs such as in the Allen Stanford case, illegal wars, assassination, mass killings, etc.

They control our media and have taken to taking control of corporations and banks where they make their members CEOs. The Time Warner CNN merger was meant to oust Ted Turner so they could silence all the independent voices in the media. William K. Black says that the Wall St. collapse could not have happened without mass corruption. I proffer that the CIA's corruption of taking over corporations and banks had a lot to do with Wall St.'s collapse.